Hermann Gösmann

Hermann Gösmann (9 January 1904 – 21 January 1979) was a German lawyer and football administrator who was president of the German Football Association (German: Deutscher Fußball-Bund, DFB) from 1962 to 1975.

FC Köln, and Hermann Neuberger (Gösmann's eventual successor), he participated in the founding of the Bundesliga.

Gösmann was elected president during a DFB-Bundestag on July 28 1962 in the Westfalenhallen in Dortmund.

Gösmann died at the age of 75 in Osnabrück due to a pulmonary embolism.

He was buried in the Heger cemetery in the same city.